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• A Japanese Fu-Go balloon was detected at 28,000 feet 40 miles southwest of Shemya Island in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska and was shot down by USAAF fighter planes. The balloon was not recovered. ww2dbase [Shemya, Aleutian Islands | DS]
• A Japanese Fu-Go balloon was detected at 28,000 feet 40 miles southwest of Shemya Island in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska and was shot down by USAAF fighter planes. The balloon was not recovered. ww2dbase [Fu-Go | Shemya, Aleutian Islands | DS]

• Anglo-Indian and Japanese troops clashed at Kabwet, Burma. ww2dbase [Battle of Meiktila-Mandalay | Kabwet | CPC]

• Destroyer USS Saufley departed Morotai, Molucca Islands, Dutch East Indies bound for Leyte Gulf, Philippines. ww2dbase [Saufley | Morotai, Molucca Islands | DS]

• Denise Bloch was executed at Ravensbrück Concentration Camp, Germany some time between this date and 5 Feb 1945. ww2dbase [Denise Bloch | Ravensbrück Concentration Camp | Ravensbrück, Mark Brandenburg | CPC]
• Germany announced the biggest evacuation in military history when the first of what would grow to be up to two million troops were withdrawn by ship through the Baltic from Preußen (Prussia) and Pommern (Pomerania). The evacuation continued until the end of the European War. ww2dbase [East Prussian Offensive | AC]
• Heinz Guderian asked Joachim von Ribbentrop to negotiate peace with the Western Allies. Ribbentrop reported this to Adolf Hitler. ww2dbase [Heinz Guderian | CPC]

• USS Pollack departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Pollack | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
• USS Hackleback arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Hackleback | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | CPC]
• USS Sterlet departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her third war patrol. ww2dbase [Sterlet | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]

• Landing ship No. 147 was completed. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]
• Gato-class submarine USS Silversides made a torpedo attack on Japanese army cargo ship Malay Maru off the southern coast of Kyushu, Japan. Silversides fired four torpedoes but only two launched while two ran hot in the tubes. The two that launched, hit and sank the Malay Maru while Silversides had to go deep because of a prompt counterattack by Japanese escorts. One torpedo was ejected fairly quickly but the other was hung up for over seven hours, throughout the entire depth charge attack. It was only after firing the tube while backing at high speed that the torpedo left the tube, almost two years to the day since Silversides was saved by a similar maneuver. ww2dbase [Silversides | Kyushu | DS]

• USS Shangri-La departed Balboa, Panama Canal Zone. ww2dbase [Shangri-La | Balboa | CPC]

• Douglas MacArthur moved his advance headquarters forward to the Hacienda Luisita plantation, Tarlac, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Douglas MacArthur | Hacienda Luisita, Tarlac | CPC]
• USS Luce departed San Pedro Bay, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Luce | San Pedro Bay | CPC]

• Posen, Germany (now Poznan, Poland) was declared a Fortress City after it was surrounded and left to wither by Soviet forces. ww2dbase [Vistula-Oder Offensive | Poznan | TH]

• Raoul Wallenberg was interrogated at the OKR of Soviet 18th Rifle Corps in Russia. ww2dbase [Raoul Wallenberg | CPC]

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